I would like to add more advantages from a higher investment in education, besides that already said in the previous reports. Actually there are not many persons studying in tertiary education in Brazil, like there are in other countries, mainly a country with a trend growth like our, after all, that is why they put us in the called ¨BRIC¨, the emerging countries with potential to become a superpower this century. A higher percentage of the population well educated will result in lower inequality, the improvement of the skilled labour broaden the possibilities of development through improvement of products and productivity with higher gains to workers, enterprises and societies in general, because with a higher net of incomes there will be more investment and growth, consequently there will be less unemployment, less crime, less poverty and also more dignity, citizenship and respect to the human rights and the constitution. Now I will add the data from UNESCO, published in Atlas Collection at National Geographic, Brazilian Edition 2008.
Tertiary education enrollment rate. From one of lowest to one of highest percentage of total.
Brazil 17% Argentina 48%
Paraguai 17% Italy 50%
Mexico 21% Portugal 51%
Turkey 24% Poland 55%
Colombia 24% Canada 59%
Cuba 25% U.K. 60%
Panama 35% Spain 60%
Bolivia 35% Russia 64%
Chile 38% U.S.A. 72%
Japan 48% South Korea 78%
